Texas Health Skills for High School, Textbook
Texas Health Skills for High School provides the skills and information students need to make responsible decisions and promote a lifetime of health and wellness. Students will have the opportunity to practice their health skills in a variety of contexts, related to the subjects that most apply to their lives. Content and skills align to the National Health Education Standards and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health I and Health II. By studying this text, students will be empowered to advocate for every area of their health, now and in the future.
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Texas Health Skills for High School, Textbook
- Texas Health Skills for High School
- Copyright © 2023 by The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.
- About the Authors
- Contributors and Reviewers
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Feature Contents
- To the Student
- Unit 1 Promoting a Lifetime of Health and Wellness
- Chapter 1 Health and Wellness Fundamentals
- Chapter 2 Health and Wellness Skills
- Chapter 3 Interpersonal Skills
- Unit 2 Being Mentally and Emotionally Healthy
- Chapter 4 Promoting Mental and Emotional Health
- Chapter 5 Shifting to Positive Thinking
- Chapter 6 Managing the Stress in Your Life
- Chapter 7 Understanding Mental Illnesses
- Unit 3 Developing a Healthy Lifestyle
- Chapter 8 Following a Healthy Diet
- Chapter 9 Having a Healthy Body Image
- Chapter 10 Engaging in Physical Activity
- Unit 4 Avoiding Hazardous Substances
- Chapter 11 Vaping and Tobacco
- Chapter 12 Alcohol
- Chapter 13 Medications and Drugs
- Unit 5 Establishing Healthy Relationships
- Chapter 14 Maintaining Healthy Relationships
- Unit 6 Protecting Your Health
- Chapter 15 Personal Safety
- Chapter 16 Environmental Health
- Unit 7 Understanding Diseases and Disorders
- Chapter 17 Communicable Diseases
- Chapter 18 Noncommunicable Diseases
- Unit 8 Human Development
- Chapter 19 Health Across the Life Span
- Background Lesson 1 The Body Systems
- Background Lesson 2 Personal Hygiene
- Background Lesson 3 Sleep
- Glossary/Glosario
- INDEX